Lesson 10: Character Transformation—Goals & Plots

This Moral Premise Storycraft Training series is designed for storytellers of all media and genres, but particularly for filmmakers and movie audiences.

Lesson 10 contains Episode 18 (Video 10A), Episode 19 (Video 10B), and Episode 20 (Video 10C)

This 54-min lesson, covers the foolproof, anti-writers-block method for screenwriters, novelists, and playwrights for designing their character's transformation. It describes the theory and a method for the proper construction of plots, subplots, goals, subgoals, and irony. It is based on the Moral Premise concept of vice, virtue and their natural consequences. The workshop contains 54 colorful slides that offer extended material which is based on the Hollywood story structure book: The Moral Premise: Harnessing Virtue and Vice for Box Office Success. Prerequisite Recommendation: Lessons 1-9.

SPECIFICALLY, this program coves:
-- Review of the traditional beats and the rollercoaster effect
-- How the major beats are laid out on a story diamond.
-- How Characters transform through the Values-Actions cycle
-- How Inner Values motivate Outer Action
-- How the protagonist has no control over the consequences of his/her action
-- Why each subplot must have an associated goal
-- Why characters have multiple subplots
-- How subplots are created from a character's life aspects
-- How the Moral Premise unites plots and subplots
-- How to card a plot or subplot
-- How to determine who the protagonist of a story is and how to keep him or her in that role
-- How Irony dramatizes Goals and Plots
-- How Irony naturally leads to Oscar winning scripts